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Outdoor ritual photo under trees in a sandy clearing. A shirtless young man with long dark hair and a red-orange tilak on his forehead holds a silver oil lamp with a bright flame in one hand and a silver ritual bell (ghanta) in the other, with a red cloth or flower stem between his fingers. He wears an orange dhoti, a rudraksha mala and a large beaded necklace. In the foreground, a man with his back to the camera, wearing a red dhoti and a rudraksha mala, gestures toward the lamp. Green leaves and a tree trunk are behind them, with colourful threads tied to a tree on the right.

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